Shipping

FOR 2014, international trade is expected to grow between 4.5 and 5 per cent. Growth in the shipping industry is directly linked to growth in international trade, but I believe that this projected growth will have only marginal impact on the volume...

Standing well over six-foot tall, Robert Kinlocke's height can be intimidating, but get to know him and you'll realise that the chief executive officer (CEO) of Gateway Shipping Limited is a gentle giant.It was on August 31, 1970 that his illustrious...

Maersk Line has appointed long-serving employee, Rodrigo Artavia, as its new managing director for the Caribbean Country Cluster comprising Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panama, Surinam, Guyana, and the Caribbean islands.Artavia joined the AP Moller...

More than 70 members of the shipping industry last Thursday participated in a Logistics 101 Course hosted by the Shipping Association of Jamaica.The course, developed by the Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI) in collaboration with the Ministry...

Ladies and gentlemen, while I'm personally very saddened that we have occasion to meet in this way, I'm honoured to have the opportunity to pay tribute to a true son of Jamaica, a personal friend, and a member of the Shipping Association of Jamaica,...

Presentation by Charles Johnston, chairman of Jamaica Producers Group Limited, at the Logistics Hub Symposium held on January 21 and 22, 2014. Until recently, the industry was not known by the logistics label, but rather by the shipping industry...

Minister of industry, Investment and Commerce G. Anthony Hylton has commended the Shipping Association of Jamaica (SAJ) for what he called its "zealousness in ensuring the competitiveness and viability of the shipping industry"....

Jamaica's proposed development as a logistics hub has sparked recent discussions on the economic prospects for local business and workers as the country seeks to serve the global supply chain and take advantage of the increased opportunities ...

This is the second of a two-part seriesHarriat "Harry" Maragh, Chairman and CEO of Lannaman and Morris (Shipping) Ltd, became a partner in the company that is headquartered in Florida, and of which he is now Chairman.He surmised that many...

Author Peter Senge is famously quoted as saying, "In the presence of greatness, pettiness disappears. In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails." If one has any difficulty fully understanding the profound nature of this statement...

Shipping Association of Jamaica stevedores headed for duties aboard the 'Hoegh Trader' car vessel.In 2009, the Shipping Association of Jamaica (SAJ) had the foresight to develop an apprenticeship programme for the benefit of the shipping industry.

Dr Morais Guy, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing, deposited Instruments of Accession on the Convention of Maritime Salvage (1989) and two Maritime Protocols on behalf of the Jamaican Government...

Though he treasured his years at sea, Captain Diedrich Suendermann, general manager of Carib Star Shipping, was forced to accept the reality that there was limited scope or hope of upward movement aboard the merchant ships on which he served for 23 years.

Shipping Association of Jamaica (SAJ) president, Kim Clarke, and his full managing committee (board of directors) were returned to serve another one-year term at the association's annual general meeting...

This is part one of a two-part article on Captain Diedrich Suendermann, general manager of Carib Star Shipping.The general manager of Carib Star Shipping, a fully owned subsidiary of and local agents for ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd, barely...